Pound shop Xmas disaster

As we enter the last third of the year, which is one continuous Halloween and Christmas season, the local pound shops (UK dollar stores) have started introducing their seasonal stock.

In this case it includes this lovely LED string USB charging cable with an exciting new approach to driving LEDs. It's interesting to note that while these came from One Below, they're echoing the equally disastrous version sold by Poundland in previous years.

If you buy these lights, do it for the caps alone. They're easy to remove once the LEDs have melted the glue!

It's intriguing that the LEDs initially survived, but after some use their current dropped notably due to internal degradation.

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